htly informed of every fact which tends to decide the
question. The trial which forms the subject of the following
correspondence was looked forward to with great interest by
farmers; such was the partial character of the trial, and the
general terms of the committee's report, in which the particulars
that led to the result were omitted, it cannot appear strange that
the public should be in some degree misled with regard to the
relative merits of the two machines. If my own interest was alone
concerned, I would not thus far trespass on your columns, but you
will doubtless agree with me, that it is due to wheat growers
throughout the country that the views expressed by Mr. Roane, in
connection with the committee's report, should be published as
extensively as the report itself; I therefore solicit the
insertion of the following correspondence in your paper.

"Very respectfully,

"OBED HUSSEY."

[Sidenote: Hussey Letter to Mr. Roane]

"Baltimore, January 18th, 1844.

_"To the Hon. William H. Roane:_

"Dear Sir--You will remember that a trial took place on the farm
of Mr. Hutchinson near Richmond, Va., in July last, between my
reaping machine and Mr. McCormick's, at which trial you were one
of a committee which gave the preference to Mr. McCormick's
machine.

"You will also recollect that the machine which I used at that
time was a small one, and quite different from that which I used
in your field a few days afterwards in a second trial between Mr.
McCormick and myself.

"As the first trial was made under circumstances unfavorable to
myself, owing to the difficulties which prevented me from getting
my best machine to the field on that day, and other impediments
incidental to a stranger unprovided with a team, etc., and as no
report was made of the second trial, you will oblige me by
informing me what your impressions were after witnessing the
second trial.

"I would very gladly embrace the opportunity which the next
harvest will afford of following up my experiments in wheat
cutting in Virginia, but the new field opened to me in the
_great west_ for cutting hemp, in which I was so successful
last September, as will appear by the Louisville 'Journal' of that
date, will claim my particular attention this year. I mention this
to you lest it might appear t